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Thursday, April 19, 2018

Eyitemi Popo's Girl Trip Tours helps millennial women explore Africa

We love a good travel experience focused on female empowerment, so when we saw the amazing trip Eyitemi is curating with her partners we knew it deserved a feature.

GirlsTrip Tours helps millennial women confidently explore African destinations, while supporting local business women through commerce and empowering young girls through mentorship. Not only do they curate travel experiences that empower, but they are building an ecosystem of local and expatriate women who can host or guide female travelers exploring their locales.

“Traveling alone as a woman anywhere in the world comes with its challenges and dangers. Africa is no exception. We want to help female travellers explore Africa on their own terms, and in exchange, leverage their expertise to impact the next generation of female leaders across the continent.”, says founder Eyitemi Popo.

Eyitemi Popo, Founder

The first GirlsTrip Tour will take participants on an unforgettable adventure through Ghana, West Africa where they will explore Ghana’s tech hubs, patronize local business women, and of course take in all the awesome sites that Accra and the Cape Coast have to offer! An essential highlight of the experience will be the time spent mentoring young female coders from the Soronko Academy in Accra: West Africa’s first human-centered design school.

While the first trip is focused on tech, high ambition women from all fields are welcome. All those looking to travel to the continent in a meaningful, yet adventure-filled should check out their packages.

To help ensure the longevity of the GirlsTrip Tours impact, Ayiba Magazine has already raised $2,000 toward a mentorship and advancement program for high potential African girls - starting with the 15 they will be mentoring at the coding academy in Ghana.

Girls Trip is looking for interested travelers to join the experience June 30th - July 8th, 2018 in Ghana. They are also looking for women living in Accra to get involved with the mentorship program or sign up to their travel network where they can earn money for hosting or guiding solo travelers.

This project is led byAyiba Magazine’sEyitemi Popo, who has been featured inShe Leads Africa, named a leading woman byBusinessDay, and is alsoa Danone Paris ProgramEVE Influencerbecause of her work amplifying the African female voice in media. Eyitemi, together with her advisors - Candace Nkoth-Bisseck, who was#1 onForbes 30 under 30 changemakers,Regina Honu, one of BBC's 100 Womenin 2017, and Tania Habimana, a serial entrepreneur who recently launcheda Standard Bankbackedfashion accelerator in South Africa - want to leverage their networks to advance the African female agenda throughtravel, entrepreneurship, and mentorship.

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Moiyattu Banya is Editor-in-Chief and Founder of Women|Change|Africa. She has over 10 years plus experience on working on women and gender issues both on the African continent and in the diaspora and has lead digital campaigns, and communication strategies for a multiple of women owned brands and organizations. Out of her passion to tell stories both in the digital space and in writing, she created WCA in 2012. The platform has celebrated over 50+ brands, companies and organizations owned by African women living both in the diaspora and on the continent. In 2014 she was selected out of 200 women to participate in the African Women’s Development Fund Creative Non Fiction Writing Course in Entebbe Uganda an experience that forever changed her writing journey. She is a social entrepreneur by training and has a masters in social enterprise and administration from Columbia University’s School of Social work.

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Women| Change| Africa is an African women’s media lifestyle brand, that celebrates, cultivates and connects brands, companies and organizations owned by African women entrepreneurs, professionals, and thought leaders. 2012 WCA has curated high quality, inspiring stories of over 50+ African women owned brands, companies and businesses and partnered with over 20+ women owned brands. WCA has been featured on various media outlets including Radio France International, Afroelle Magazine, True Africa and Elle Magazine South Africa.